Lebanese culture minister visits National Museum of Iran

TEHRAN – Lebanon’s Minister of Tradition Abbas Mortada toured the Nationwide Museum of Iran on Tuesday. 

Within the firm of plenty of Iranian cultural officers, he visited totally different sections and galleries of the museum, ILNA reported on Wednesday. 

“I had the privilege of visiting this extraordinary museum at the moment and experiencing the cultural and inventive heritage that represents the Iranian folks and their civilization,” Mortada stated throughout his go to. 

Nationwide Museum of Iran is a state museum below the auspices of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts. The Museum consists of the Iran Bastan Museum (Historic Iran) and the Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Artwork of Iran, in addition to eight analysis departments, the conservation division, the library, and the archives. The analysis departments are organized by particular archaeological and historic intervals and subjects. 

This Museum homes the biggest collections of archaeological objects within the nation. Courting from the Paleolithic to the late Islamic interval, the collections characterize greater than 1,000,000 years of human settlement and cultural achievement in Iran. The Paleolithic private ornaments, clay and human collectible figurines from the early village communities, the earliest proof of administrative expertise and writing from the 4th millennium BC, Persepolis stone reliefs and capitals, Parthian life-size bronze statue of the “Shami Man”, the pure mummy of a person referred to as “Salt Man,” the Ilkhanid Mihrab (prayer area of interest) of Dar-e Behesht, and the pen and ink (Siah Qalam) work by Reza Abbasi of the Safavid interval are among the many essential objects within the museum.

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